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14th Dec 2017 – Press Information Bureau (Daily PIB PDF-UPSC)

NITI Aayog Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Ayog It will launch the Atal Tinkering Lab’s Community Day. CEO NITI Aayog, Mr. Amitabh Kant will launch the initiative Community Drive Initiative: 25 young mentors will engage with more than 200 students...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 15th Dec 2017

Whither disaster management after Ockhi? More lives of fisherfolk would have been saved if disaster management action plans were          implemented properly Widespread human, material, and environmental losses Most disasters — floods, cyclones, earthquakes, landslides — are due to nature’s fury(गुस्सा). Cyclone Ockhi struck Kanniyakumari district in Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala on November 29th night and 30th morning. As per the information given by fishermen associations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala,  over 120 fishermen are dead and about 900 are still missing. Failure in damage control- basic failings in the government’s response: 1)-the cyclone warning was delayed; already out at sea; and 2)-Once the cyclone struck, there was no war­like mobilisation and action , which are the hallmarks of good disaster management. The Coast Guard, they said, turned a deaf ear to their pleas Indian Navy with its vast array of ships, aircraft and state­of­the­art technology should have stepped in immediate. Indian Meteorological Department’s timing of the cyclone forecast -? What has happened to the1)-National Disaster Management Act (2005),2)-National Policy on Disaster Management (2009),...

13th Dec 2017 – Press Information Bureau (Daily PIB PDF-UPSC)

PM at Annual General Meeting of FICCI Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at Congress on the issue of huge Non Performing Assets-NPAs in banks. PM said that the previous UPA government forced banks to give huge loans to...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 14th Dec 2017

Anti-Defection Law Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis More time to link accounts to Aadhaar- Deadline extended from Dec. 31 to March 31, 2018 Hearing from today- Challenge to the validity of the Aadhaar scheme Prepare plan mapping air pollution sources: SC Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to notify a comprehensive action plan mapping the sources of air pollution in Delhi and the...

12th Dec 2017 – Press Information Bureau (Daily PIB PDF-UPSC)

Vice President's Secretariat Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu attended a Christmas celebration event organized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI). Christmas reminds us all to live up to the ideals and values preached and practiced by Jesus Christ Christmas...

11th Dec 2017 – Press Information Bureau (Daily PIB PDF-UPSC)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Universal Health Coverage Day, 2017 Launched: “LaQshya| लक्ष्य’’ - Labour Room Quality Improvement Initiative, a Safe Delivery Mobile Application. For health workers who manage normal and complicated deliveries in the peripheral areas Released: Operational...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 13th Dec 2017

Human rights and Indian values Neither civilisational ethos nor the mere enshrining of constitutional morality is enough to deliver on basic rights Union Minister for Minority A•airs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was quick to respond to the murder of Afrazul Khan...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 12th Dec 2017

Media coverage of peacekeeping operations is an area with many gaps China rising Beijing has become the largest troop contributor among permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC). More importantly, China is now the third largest contributor to the...

9 Dec 2017 – Press Information Bureau (Daily PIB PDF-UPSC)

Indian Space Research Organisation will launch its second lunar mission ChandrayaanII in the first quarter of next year. The space agency's second indigenous mission to the earth's satellite will be equipped with upgraded domestic space technology. ISRO Chairman, Kiran Kumar...

The Hindu Editorial News Analysis 11th Dec 2017

North Korea, the world is way past tactical solutions, Only a comprehensive diplomatic solution will work Saddam Hussein- Iraq Muammar Gaddafi- Libya North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong­un     To give up his weapons. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2003 India, Israel, Pakistan and South Sudan Exhausted from imposing sanctions to isolating China- Refugees into its territory Russia-  No cards to play Japan and South Korea, in a sense, then  are the real victims How we can live with a nuclear North Korea rather than think of impractical military solutions THE CRUNCH TIME OF WTO(World Trade...